The social media ban will also widen the GCSE attainment gap between state school and private school kids by the way, especially as Labour continue to make real-terms cuts to state school funding. Many children rely on YouTube and social media platforms to access revision materials and state schools absolutely do not have the capacity to compensate for children being banned from accessing these resources. You know who does have the capacity to invest more in textbooks and educational materials? Private schools.
Mind you, we have already lived through a global pandemic where we saw the value and necessity of having online educational resources available for free. We saw what it was like when educators had to scramble to adapt to remote learning and at the end of the day it simply wouldn't have been possible without YouTube educational content.















